And again, freedom is first a state of mind before it's a state of the flesh.

The cold, harsh truth is that nobody is stopping anyone - not even in communist/totalitarian style rulership nations - from being free but you. I understand the brainwashing and conditioning but when you are capable of looking around and seeing other people choosing freedom and refusing to live in servitude to anyone else and you make excuses for it and shrink back down instead of rising up for your own best interests, the problem lies with you. Most people won't do anything - even here for that matter - because they're terrified their government enforcers will just kill them. So they settle down and comply.

That is the mark of a slave.

And an accomplice.

There's a saying here in the USA, I think it initiated from Oprah or someone along those lines about domestic violence and abused women that goes, "The first time, she's a victim. Every time after that, she's an accomplice." Because she makes a choice to stick around and cling to her bad beliefs and conditioning, and indulge her fears of radical change.

I'd never allow myself to become a servant of anyone else...and I'll surely, gladly die preventing it - taking out the arrogant psychos with me, guaranteed.

But that's me. Clearly, the people of China (and elsewhere) haven't managed to join us in the 21st century paradigm of freedom the way they have with certain technology. Nothing worse than a bronze aged paradigm in a $5000 suit.